Whether you are into Youtube marketing looking to establish your Youtube presence or you just love using Youtube to discover new cool videos daily, understanding how Youtube search works is very essential. If you want to learn how to take full advantage of YouTube’s search functionality, there are a number of options and commands that you can use to enhance your searches within YouTube.

1) + operator to force the search results to include your second search phrase.

This one turns particularly handy if your search results are flooded with some popular results. Example:

Likewise, you can force the search results to omit any particular filter, if you use a comma. For example, if you don’t want to see channels in your search results, you can type :

Google’s Search Operators in Youtube

Since Youtube is powered by Google, it’s quite natural they have quite a few search operators in common. There’s a very detailed articles listing Google’s search operators that work in Youtube. The most important search operators include:

1. Force exact match

Youtube’s search results are already quite exact-match-centric, but sometimes all you need to find is your exact phrase. Besides, if you are using any sorting option rather than “Relevance”, you’ll find your search results quite irrelevant. Quotes are there to help:

2. Force your search terms in the name of the video

That’s another great way to increase relevance when you are using non-default sorting options:

3. Substitute any word with the wildcard

Sometime, you don’t have a search term and just want to get the list of random videos. That’s when a wildcard operator helps a lot. For example, you can all current LIVE videos sorted by popularity using search plus the “number of views” sorting option:

Here you go! Quite a few Youtube search tricks to keep you quite busy playing with search results! Please let us know if you are aware of more search options and hacks.

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